Cryptic crossword clue
Lab gear wrong for this school subject 7

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word ALGEBRA

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The straight part
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What does ALGEBRA mean?

ALGEBRA noun
  1. A system for computation using letters or other symbols to represent numbers, with rules for manipulating these symbols.
  2. The surgical treatment of a dislocated or fractured bone. Also : a dislocation or fracture.
  3. The study of algebraic structures.
  4. A universal algebra.
  5. An algebraic structure consisting of a module over a commutative ring (or a vector space over a field) along with an additional binary operation that is bilinear over module (or vector) addition and scalar multiplication.
  6. A collection of subsets of a given set, such that this collection contains the empty set, and the collection is closed under unions and complements (and thereby also under intersections and differences).
  7. One of several other types of mathematical structure.
  8. A system or process, that is like algebra by substituting one thing for another, or in using signs, symbols, etc., to represent concepts or ideas.

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